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Lionel Messi and his ‘what are you looking at, fool’: story behind the anger | World Cup Qatar 2022 | Trends

“What are you looking at, fool. Go over there.”

This phrase that Lionel Messi uttered last Friday during an interview after the match between the teams of Argentina and the Netherlands in the quarterfinals of the World Cup has gone viral in recent days.

To such an extent that it is being immortalized in all kinds of media: memes, tik tok videos, songs, hats, t-shirts, or mugs.

But, to whom was the insult of the Argentine star captured by the television cameras directed?

The match between the Argentines and the Dutch that ended with the victory of the first in the penalty shootout was marked by the tension of the final minutes of regulation time, with the goal by Wout Weghorst that achieved a 2-2 tie for the Netherlands and that He sent the match to extra time.

There were several clashes between the players of both teams and some brawls at the end of a match that the Argentines were winning until the 100th minute.

After the game Leo Messi offered an interview to the TyC Sports channel and before starting to answer he was seen in a video looking into the distance and saying: “What are you looking at, stupid? What are you looking at, stupid? Go over there, stupid , go over there”.

In those images it was not seen who the Argentine captain was addressing.

Later it was learned thanks to a recording of the moment from another perspective that Messi was speaking to Weghorst, the author of the two goals for the Netherlands.

Apparently, at the end of the game Weghorst approached Messi, according to him, with the intention of shaking his hand and asking for his shirt, but he refused.

In these second images the Dutch player is seen arguing with the Argentines Lautaro Martínez and ‘Kun’ Agüero, who is in Qatar acting as a commentator.

According to Agüero, while the Argentine captain was preparing to give his interview, Weghorst in a provocative attitude looked at him from a distance and said ‘Hey, Messi, hey, Messi’.

That was when the Argentine star told him his already famous “What are you looking at, silly”.

Weghorst also gave his version of what happened after the incident in an interview.

“I wanted to shake his hand after the game. I have a lot of respect for him as a football player but he threw my hand aside and didn’t want to talk to me. My Spanish is not very good but he said disrespectful words to me and that disappoints me, I’m really disappointed “said the player.

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